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...sober, substantive tome that traces the decline of the Ottoman Empire and includes graphs of housing prices. With voters consumed with their checkbooks, he ramps up the wonkishness, offering an Index of Leading Leading Indicators and closing the book with a 64-point agenda on issues ranging from tort reform and the construction of nuclear power plants to hiking teacher pay and appointing strict constitutionalists to the bench. No Apology is Romney's attempt to position himself as the business-savvy candidate economic conservatives can coalesce behind, which isn't a bad tactic. Still, he's now given his opponents...
...labor markets. But another issue was that E.U. leaders were simply unwilling to overhaul their economies - and there was no enforcement mechanism in place to put them into line. Ann Mettler, head of the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank, says European leaders have been too cautious about reform, backing off, for example, when it comes to tackling energy oligopolies and inefficient, formerly state-run telecom operators. "We are in a state of crisis," she says. "We can't just have a battery of lofty goals and feel-good measures. We need political will to address Europe's real...
Although the UC’s report is only a small, preliminary step forward, their suggestions for dining reform are no less sensible. We strongly support the proposal to open one Quad and one river house for hot breakfast and close two Quad houses for lunch...
...since the subject was first broached. In the desperate moments following the Massachusetts Senate race, Obama sought an “elite” group to blame, and Wall Street bankers provided a perfect, easy target. His failure to outline a clear plan explains the holdup now preventing banking reform, and his focus on blaming the banks rather than reforming them represents the keystone failure of the populist ideology...
...offered in the past. But such aid should not be delivered without an acknowledgment by Haiti's ultra-venal political and economic élite that the benighted way of doing things has got to end. Even Haiti's Prime Minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, conceded to TIME recently that reform "has to be a part of Haiti's rebuilding process...